Affinity maturation and hypermutation in a simulation of the humoral immune response.

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By experimenting with a cellular automaton model of the immune system, we have reproduced affinity maturation of the antibody response, a somatic adaptation to a changing environment. The simulation allowed the isolation of a number of variables, e.g. the fraction of repertoire available, the magnitude of the change in affinity with mutation, the mutation frequency and its focus on the complementarity-determining...

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